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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This book examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental reassessment of haikai. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730990
- ISBN
- 9780804730990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and this book establishes the ground for badly needed critical discussion of this critical figure by placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730983
- ISBN
- 9780804730983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 150.96
€ 150.96
Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ East Asia Program
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947020
- ISBN
- 9781933947020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184616
- ISBN
- 9780226184616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.21
€ 31.99
€ 25.21
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164405
- ISBN
- 9780231164405
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.38€ 83.75
€ 109.38
€ 83.75
Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164412
- ISBN
- 9780231164412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.68
€ 37.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816610372
- ISBN
- 9780816610372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with chapters on the sound stratum of poetry, the units-of-meaning stratum, the world stratum, regulative concepts, and, the poetry of orientation and disorientation. This book consists of samples from the author's study of the rhythmical performance of poetry and the expressiveness of speech sounds. Num Pages: 683 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 683
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Second Edition, Second expanded edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192563
- ISBN
- 9781845192563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.28
€ 21.99
€ 21.28
Hardcover. Assesses the dramaturgy and political significance of one of our most radical contemporary playwrights Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472105878
- ISBN
- 9780472105878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.92
€ 85.92
Hardback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271064871
- ISBN
- 9780271064871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.79€ 68.09
€ 80.79
€ 68.09
Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557530561
- ISBN
- 9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.88
€ 49.88
Paperback. An exploration into representations of the Amazon, and how they were essential to homoerotic and heterosexual social constructions in early English texts. This book takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325994
- ISBN
- 9780822325994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.87
€ 31.99
€ 28.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226457802
- ISBN
- 9780226457802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 191 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810825635
- ISBN
- 9780810825635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.76
€ 106.76
Num Pages: 315 pages. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810825611
- ISBN
- 9780810825611
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.78
€ 113.78
Paperback. Kay Jamison draws on her work as a psychiatrist and researcher in mood disorders to explore connections between manic-depressive illness and artistic activity. She applies what is known about the illness to the lives and works of artists including Byron, Van Gogh, Schumann and Woolf. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations facsim., genealogy, port. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JMAL; MBP; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 213 x 24. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780684831831
- ISBN
- 9780684831831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.36
€ 16.99
€ 12.36
Hardcover. Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504387
- ISBN
- 9780674504387
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Hardback. Negotiations of National Identity. 338 pages, black & white illustrations. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 31. Weight: 680.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9781843842880
- ISBN
- 9781843842880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Paperback. A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843931
- ISBN
- 9781843843931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.10
€ 36.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125314
- ISBN
- 9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44